Carlos Siordia, PhD, MS

Dr. Carlos Siordia is an interdisciplinary lead research epidemiologist and team lead of the Morbidity and Behavioral Surveillance Team in Surveillance Branch. As a first-generation Mexican American (Chicano) college student, Dr. Siordia began his academic training in the Rio Grande Valley. After receiving a double major bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, he earned a master's degree and doctorate in sociology from Texas A&M University. He earned a master’s degree in epidemiology while serving as a postdoc, under an NIH-NRSA T32 grant focusing on the epidemiology of aging, at the University of Pittsburgh. In the federal government, Dr. Siordia served as a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He joined Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2016 and has served as a lead health scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where he was also chair of the Artificial Intelligence Interest Group, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. He has led projects crowdsourcing machine learning developers. Dr. Siordia has held adjunct faculty appointments at multiple institutions including the University of Texas Medical Branch, Texas A&M’s Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations at Western Michigan University, and West Virginia University. He currently holds an appointment in the Department of Sociology at Emory University.